Jeevan Rasayan

Elixir of Life

1. If a man wants to attain salvation in this very life, he must do the work of thousands of years in a single life. He will need to move much faster than time. One experiences praise and insult, ‘mine’ and ‘yours’, good and bad in a dream. But once he is awake, they all cease to exist. Likewise, one has to experience the non-existence of the world in the waking state. Once you come to realize and understand this, you have accomplished the work of thousands of years. The petty samskaras of thousands of years, the illusion of ‘mine’ and ‘yours’ will all be obliterated once you find a saint who can instil this knowledge in you.

2. When a person becomes a lover of his true self, the worries regarding livelihood, thoughts about women and the painful memories of enemies cease to exist.

3. To look at oneself from the perspective of others, not knowing one’s own true nature is the root cause of all sufferings. The desire to project a good image of one’s self is in itself a social vice.

4. Why do people suffer? Due to ignorance they have forgotten their original self and believe themselves to be what others say of them. This suffering will continue till the true nature of the self is not realized.

5. All physical, emotional, moral and spiritual sufferings are instantaneously eliminated with the dawn of the knowledge of Vedanta. And it is not difficult to attain this Vedantic experience, if one associates oneself with a Self-realized Saint.

6. Make efforts to please the Lord dwelling within you. You can never please all people having different opinions. When God within you is pleased, people will automatically be pleased with you.

7. If you cannot behold Brahman in all beings, try to behold him in at least a Self-realized person. Seek refuge in Him, whose heart is full of Supreme bliss. His mere glance will kindle the possibility of your awakening into Supreme Bliss. Just as X-rays penetrate the outer layers of clothes, skin, soft tissues and muscles to take the photograph of Bones, the glance of a Self-realized Saint penetrates through the different layers of your false identification with the body that lie in the chitta enabling you to see the indwelling God. This in effect makes it easy for you to penetrate through those layers and behold God within. Let your Chitta be cleansed by the glance of such a Saint. Sit before him without blinking your eyes, fill your heart with devotional love, and mind with peace; only then will His benign glance exercise its effect on your chitta.

8. Just as fishes live only in water and birds live in the air, you too should live only in the illuminating effulgence of True knowledge. Perform all actions while remaining firmly established in this truth. Make this effulgence your permanent abode. Then see, how immensely you can enjoy your daily work, life and even death!

9. O, storm! Arise and bring heavy gales and rain. O Ocean of Bliss! Break as under the limits of the earth and sky and let them merge into one. O, man! Delve deep within so that all thoughts and worries are shattered. Come! Let us weed out the sense of duality from our hearts. Let us raze the boundaries of our limited existence so that the ‘Ocean of Bliss’ may surge forth.

Come, O intoxication of love! O wine of Self meditation, Bliss of the Self! Now inebriate me with love. Why delay? My mind no longer feels like getting involved in worldly affairs. Therefore, let it be immersed in love-personified God. Burn the feelings of I, mine, you and yours to ashes. Throw away expectations and doubts. Uproot the sense of duality, pulverize it and throw it to the winds. If there is no food, it does not matter, nor do I mind if there is no shelter, but I seek to the nurture the thirst for love, the divine love.

‘What have I to do with the Vedas, the Puranas and the Qur’an? Let someone teach me the lesson of the Truth instead.

I do not wish to visit any temple or mosque. May somebody imbue me with divine love.

Where there is no discrimination between the classes,

where there exists no caste or creed.

Where there are no temples, mosque or churches,

where there is no difference between Puja and Namaz.

Where Truth is the essence of life and renunciation is its decoration.

Where the creation is filled with love and affection,

let us ferry the boat to that place’

10. Though the person is alone in dream, he creates a whole world of animals, gardens, parks and situation with his imagination. He himself takes on different forms and perceiving them as separate entities, experiences fear and anxiety. Though the fact remains that he is the lion and he himself is the goat in the dream yet he ends up frightening himself. As long as the dream continues, he is unaware of the reality and thus becomes sorrowful. On waking up, he realizes that there was none other than himself. The entire dream world was but a projection of his own imagination. Similarly in this world, in the waking state, is the projection of the viewer’s imagination in the waking state, and not the ultimate reality. If the viewer awakens to his True self, all his sufferings of this illusory world will disappear instantaneously.